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davidponte posted...

Im at a work party but Twitter is telling me the Pats are getting screwed by the refs. I believe that's the first time that sentence has ever been typed.

First was a case where a fumble was whistled dead on the field as down by contact. Pats challenged and won (but was their last challenge since they lost the other) but it's the classic case of "because it was whistled dead on the field you can't give them the return just possession at the spot of the clear recovery" thing.

Second was a rule of out-of-bounds on the 3 after a small extended discussion when replay clearly showed he stayed in (and tbqh it seemed that way live to me too.) Because Patriots were out of challenges from before they couldn't do anything about it. Drive ended in a FG.

That's the summary of why you're seeing that. Both cases where I'm pretty sure the refs did the thing they're not supposed to do in unclear situations. Second feels more egregious though because it's a case where they're clearly wrong on replay. First sucks but happens occasionally to teams (Even though, again, pretty sure refs are instructed to let it play out and deal with it in the automatic review of a turnover/score)

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